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SUBMITTER: Esposito G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4306946 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Esposito Germana G Teta Roberta R Miceli Roberta R Ceccarelli Luca S LS Della Sala Gerardo G Camerlingo Rosa R Irollo Elena E Mangoni Alfonso A Pirozzi Giuseppe G Costantino Valeria V
Marine drugs 20150116 1
The study of the secondary metabolites contained in the organic extract of Caribbean sponge Smenospongia aurea led to the isolation of smenothiazole A (3) and B (4), hybrid peptide/polyketide compounds. Assays performed using four solid tumor cell lines showed that smenothiazoles exert a potent cytotoxic activity at nanomolar levels, with selectivity over ovarian cancer cells and a pro-apoptotic mechanism. ...[more]